Elbow Room (short story collection)
# Elbow Room (short story collection)

Elbow Room: Stories is a 1977 short story collection by American author James Alan McPherson. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1978.

## Contents

The twelve short stories of Elbow Room appear in the following sequence:

* "Why I like Country Music"
* "The Story of a Dead Man"
* "The Silver Bullet"
* "The Faithful"
* "Problems of Art"
* "The Story of a Scar"
* "I am an American"
* "Widows and Orphans"
* "A Loaf of Bread"
* "Just Enough for the City"
* "A Sense of Story"
* "Elbow Room"
